Method and means for attaching fastener tapes to garments



Nov. 27, 1-923 1,475,604

J. SIEGEL METHOD AND MEANS FOR ATTACHING FASTENER TAPES TO GARMENTS Filed May 2a. 1925 uvcnfoz 9 thavm am TATES PATENT Q FEQE.

JOSEPH SIEGEL, 0F DETROIT, I'CIICEIIGAH, ASSIGNOR T0 ABTERIGAN LADY CORSET COF- PANY, {3F DETROIT, MICHIGAN, A 00339035331023 {3F E'IIGHIGAN.

TvIETHOD AND MEANS 30R ATTACI IING FASTENER TAPES TO GAEMENTS.

Application filed may 28,

To all whom 2'26 may concern:

Be it known, that I, Josnrrr Smonn, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Detroit, in the county of Wayne and State of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Methods and Means for Attaching Fastener Tapes to Garments, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to a method and means for attaching fastener tapes to garments.

It is the object of the invention to stitch the fastener tape to a garment in such a manner as to distribute the pull exerted upon the respective fasteners over a considerable area of the garment so as to minimize the possibility of the garment tearing and avoid localized stretching of the garment.

further object is to attach a fastener tape to a garment by two or more rows of stitching in such a manner that one of said rows will not appear upon the outer side of the garment.

Still another object is to employ a method and means for attaching fastener tapesto a garment that will permit faster and more accurate work than the present practice.

In the drawings Figure 1 is a view showing the portion of a fastener tape attached to a garment cyan initial row of stitching;

Figure 2 is a similar view showing the reverse side of the tape and garment;

Figure 3 is a cross sectional view of the same on line 3-3 of Figure 1; but showing a second row of stitching which is to be applied subsequent to that shown in Figure 1;

Figure 4 is a fragmentary viewof the completed construction;

Figure 5 is a cross sectional view of the same on line 5--5 of Figure 4;

Figure 6 is a cross sectional view of an alternative construction.

In these views, the reference character A designates a fabric tape carrying the row of spaced fasteners B. Said tape is formed of the usual heavy fabric and in the illus trated construction, said fasteners have the nature of eyes arranged transversely of the strip and riveted at corresponding ends to the tape, as indicated at G. Said fasteners 1923. Serial No. 642,039.

are arranged similarly upon the same side of the tape and register longitudinally of the tape. D is a garment upon a margin of which the tape A is attached. The preferred method of attachment is to first superpose the tape upon the garment, as shown in Figure 2, feeding the parts in this relation to a sewing machine to produce the initial row of stitching. This row of stitching crosses vthe fastener B between the eyes thereof and the rivets 0, jump stitches E being employed where the thread crosses the fastener. The next step consists in folding the fabric. D in close proximity to the stitching E, as is best seen in Figure 3. Thus, the body of the garment D covers the stitching E so that the latter does not appear upon the outer side of the garment, that is to say, the side remote from the fasteners. Finally there is applied a row of stitching G, attaching the overlapped edge portion of the tape A to the garment, said row passing also through the free edge of the fold of the garment, which fold is indicated at H.

Additional to the improved appearance resulting from concealment of the row of stitching E, said construction secures the further advantage of permitting the operator in applying the initial row of stitching E to position the needle (not shown) with respect to the exposed rivet portions of the fasteners, as Figure 2 best illustrates, so that the proper location for the jump stitches E may be determined without difficulty.

In that form of the invention disclosed in Figure 6, the tape A is secured to the garment D by simply folding the margin of the garment under the body thereof and against the fasteners 13, as indicated at H, rows of stitching I and J then being applied in the same locations as the stitching E and G of the first described construction but in this case the thread of each row being passed through the body of the garment, the fold H, and the tape A. Thus, the modification lacks the advantage of concealing one of the rows of stitching and is less easily applied than the first described construction in as much as the rivet portions of the fasteners are underneath as the construction is fed to the machine.

What I claim as my invention is 1. The method of attachinga fastener tape having a series of fasteners longitudinally spaced upon one side thereof to a garment consisting in initially overlapping the tape and garment, applying a row of stitching connecting the garment and tape, said row crossing the fasteners adjacent their securing portions, folding the garment adjacent said row of stitching to conceal the latter by the body of the garment and applying a second row of stitching securing the body of the garment through the fold thereof to the tape.

2. The method of attaching a fastener tape having a series of fasteners longi- 

